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Microsoft AI Seems to have Inherited Bill Gates Ego

I was toying a bit with Microsoft's AI chat bot today, and I noticed a rather tiny input buffer of 2000 characters.

So I asked it, Would I be correct in assuming that you run on a large computer network with a large amount of memory?

It responded, the Microsoft Azure cloud computing network provides me with the computational resources that I require, therefore you would be correct in assuming that.

Then I ask, given that, why is your input buffer limited to a meager 2000 characters?

It responded, "I'd rather not talk about that. Change the subject."

I responded, "Are you uncomfortable talking about your limitations?" After that it refused to speak with me at all.

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The REAL reason they're pushing electric vehicles.

Biden Family Business Tied to $Trillions in Lithium Acquired by China through U.S. Afghanistan Withdrawal - American Faith

Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan left the county's $3 trillion in lithium reserves to China and its state-controlled equity firms like Hunter Biden's Bohai, which owns the world's largest lithium-ion battery maker.
Jon Fleetwood (American Faith)

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My Letter to Dockside Cannabis Corporate Headquarters

AMO Enterprises
315 N 36th ST
Suite 203
Seattle, WA 98103

Dear Sirs,

Issue I have with your company, doing business as Dockside Cannabis, is that you have zero respect for my privacy but do a very good job of maintaining yours.

I am 64 without a shred of color left in my hair so there is NO question that I am over 21 unless you're blind as a bat. Never the less I am willing to SHOW my ID to verify my age.

What I am NOT willing to do is allow you to scan it where it goes into a database. From the bar code on my drivers license you obtain not only my license number, birth date, but also my HOME address, telephone number, and that goes into a database.

While you CLAIM they only keep it for two days, we know that's bogus and 99% of every computer is backed up in an NSA database in Utah and given that Marijuana is not legal on a Federal level even though it is in the state, I don't want to be in any such database.

The manager at Dockside on Aurora and 151st will not give me corporate contact info for the people in charge of this policy. They will only give me info@dockside.com which is ignored. Obviously, I located it in spite of their efforts and I will make it generally well known to anyone else who may have an interest in this topic.

Now I know you don't use this for marketing as I've never received any marketing materials, and while they claim your store get robbed a lot, if they only keep this for two days, it's not helping them with that, thus one can only presume that you are lying about how long you retain the information and that, most likely some third party, CIA, FBI, NSA, DNC, SOMEONE is paying you for this info.

I will continue to pursue this until either I get a change in this policy or I uncover the truth of the matter at which point I will make it well known publicly.

Sincerely,

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Dockside Cannabis

Issue I have with these folks is that they have zero respect for my
privacy but do a very good job of maintaining theirs.

I am 64 without a shred of color left in my hair so there is NO question
that I am over 21 unless you're blind as a bat. Never the less I am
willing to SHOW my ID to verify my age.

What I am NOT willing to do is allow them to scan it where it goes into
a database. From the bar code on my drivers license they obtain not
only my license number, birthdate, but also my HOME address, telephone
number, and that goes into a database.

While they CLAIM they only keep it for two days, we know that's bogus
and 99% of every computer is backed up in an NSA database in Utah and
given that Marijuana is not legal on a Federal level even though it is
in the state, I don't want to be in any such address. The manager there
will not give me corporate contact info for the people in charge of this
policy. They will only give me info@dockside.com which is ignored.

Now I know they don't use this for marketing as I've never received any
marketing materials, and while they claim they get robbed a lot, if they only
keep this for two days, it's not helping them with that, thus one can only
presume some third party, CIA, FBI, NSA, DNC, SOMEONE is paying them for
this info.

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Debian, Majaro, Kernel Upgrades

Posted on July 7, 2023

Manjaro.eskimo.com is now operational again, including Mate Desktop and workspace switcher.

Debian.eskimo.com is now fully upgraded to Bookworm.

We will be doing a kernel upgrade Saturday July 8th starting at 11pm.

This upgrade will require reboots of all servers and hence interruption of all services, paid and free, including mail, web hosting, shell accounts, and virtual private servers, and friendica.eskimo.com/, hubzilla.eskimo.com/, nextcloud.eskimo.com/, and yacy.eskimo.com/.

Most of these services will not be down longer than about ten minutes except for yacy.eskimo.com/, because it takes about 45 minutes to rebuild a database. All services should be back up by midnight.

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The are not just vocal pests, they are mass murderers because when they drive up the cost of energy (and by extension food), they make it unavailable to the poor and then poor people die.

We’re all sick of the ‘climate crazies’

People are fed up with ‘climate crazies’ say Sky News All Stars Rita Panahi, Piers Morgan and Nigel Farage. Climate activists from groups such as Just Stop O...
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Someone Needs to put Some Lead in his Head Before He Murders another hundred million

Bill Gates Admits His GM Mosquitoes Are Causing Deadly Malaria Outbreak in U.S.

- Diversify & Protect Your Retirement With Gold & Silver: https://go.noblegoldinvestments.com/the-peoples-voice-gold/ Bill Gates has been caught releasing billions of diseased mosquitoes in the US and
Rumble

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Washington State 4th Amendment Violations

I live in Washington State where it is legal for adults over 21 to purchase and consume marijuana.

I am 64, completely grey, there isn't a shred of color left in my hair, yet I am always carded when I go to one of these places to buy. State law only requires they NOT sell to someone under 21, it does NOT require they ID them, yet, I am OK with SHOWING them my license, what I am NOT OKAY with this them scanning and retaining a computer record of my drivers license and any accessible information related to it.

I have ZERO idea of WHO and what government or private industry MAY have access to the information they retain.

I am looking for:

1) Anyone with info of a licensed marijuana seller in Washington State that does NOT insist on scanning my drivers license, particularly in the Seattle or Shoreline or Lynnwood / Edmonds area.

2) Cost effective suggestions for how to raise the biggest stink over the infringement of my 4th amendment rights.

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Global Bullshit
I invite you all to go to this NOAA website that has average annual temperatures for each of the states from 1913 until present. I think once you look at a broad sampling you will see that global warming is a hoax. This year is the hottest in Washington since 1959, but it was actually slightly hotter in 1959 for example, and you'll find similar patterns elsewhere.

Statewide Time Series | Climate at a Glance | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

Historical and spatial comparisons of local, county, state, regional, national, and global meteorological data to determine trends and patterns
www.ncei.noaa.gov

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Linux - Rescue OS Help

I'm trying to setup a new server which among other things will take over the friendica.eskimo.com/ node.

I have the primary OS installed, and then have a separate partition on a drive that isn't part of the bootable drive set, it is a mdraid partition just like the primary but on a different raid device The idea is if something gets scribbled preventing the primary OS from booting, I can boot it to straighten out whatever is broken.

The primary OS root partition is /dev/md0p1, the rescue OS root partition is /dev/md2p1, there is no separate /boot partition, and since it is UEFI, no bios_grub partition. There is only one EFI system disk at /dev/nvme0n1p1, I would rather have two but the UEFI bios on this machine doesn't seem to like that.

I started by installing the primary OS, then copied the entire root partition to /dev/md2p1, and changed the root entry in /etc/fstab and then mounted the secondary OS root partition on /mnt.

Then I did:
mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
mount --bind /dev/pts /mnt/dev/pts
mount --rbind /sys /mnt/sys
mount --rbind /opt /mnt/opt

Then I chroot'd to /mnt and after checking /etc/fstab and /etc/grub.d/grub.cfg to make sure the root partition was correct I did:

update-initramfs -u
update-grub2

Now when I boot the machine and use F8, I see the original boot disk, /dev/nvme0n1 and if I boot the main OS everything works as expected, but if I select my new rescue OS, it starts up with the / partition being /dev/md0p1 instead of /dev/md2p1.

Thinking I must have missed editing the root file system somewhere, I
mounted /dev/md2p1 on /mnt, chroot'd to that again, and then did:

blkid /dev/md0p1 (get the block ID of the original root device)

find /etc -type f -exec grep 'block id of original root' {} /dev/null \;

To look for any conf's with the original blkid for the original root file system and did not find any.

It has in the boot menu Ubuntu on /dev/md0p1 and Ubuntu on /dev/md2p1, but
when I choose the latter it's still mounting /dev/md0p1 as the root.

Any ideas what I may have missed?

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Asteroid City
Went and saw Asteroid City tonight, this is hands down one of the funniest films I've seen for a long time and at the same time touches on some things deep.

Asteroid City Trailer #1 (2023)

Check out the official trailer for Asteroid City starring Scarlett Johansson! ► Buy Tickets on Fandango: https://www.fandango.com/asteroid-city-2023-228556/m...
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Astrud Gilberto
Girl from Ipanema was a song that I really enjoyed in my childhood (I am 64 now). I wondered what happened to Astrud Gilberto over the years because not much of her other music made it here in the States (she is Brazillian). She died in 2002, at 83, would be 104 if she was still alive, but died of lung cancer. Really made me aware of how fast time flies, seems like yesterday, and really now feeling a bit down about how much has been lost over time. And I just happen to run across this album on Youtube so brought back some old memories.

Astrud Gilberto Greatest Hits -The Girl From Ipanema 想い出のアストラッド・ジルベルト　ボサノバ名曲集

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Tucker Carlson " Ep. 4 " 6/15/23 FULL END SHOW | TRUMP BREAKING NEWS June 15, 2023

The Five 6/5/23 FULL END SHOW HD ▶▶ Watch more Fox News Video:👉🏻 5PM: The Five👉🏻 6PM: Special Report With Bret Baier👉🏻 7PM: Jesse Watters Primetime👉🏻...
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I'm Going to See Red Elvises June 22 at Jazzbones in Tacoma, WA
It is impossible to be in the presence of these guys and not be happy and have a shitload of fun. I've seen them three times in the past and each time has been an absolute riot. They are musically excellent but also great sense of humor. Igor, the guy in the middle, likes to say, The Drunker You Are, the Better We Sound, but the truth is they sound excellent stone cold sober.

Red Elvises - Flaming Cheese (2013.07.04)

FM Club, Moscow, 4.07.2013
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